How Many Frogs Are Left in This Math Problem?
QUESTION Three frogs sat on a log and one decided to jump off. How many frogs were left on the log? EXPLANATION Although almost everyone answers...
Life Lesson I Learned from Playing Soccer with Pelé That Will Help You in 2023
Pelé passed away over the holidays at the age of 82. Regarded as the GOAT, he is the only soccer player to win the World Cup three times. As a kid I...
Lesson Learned from Changing the Plan that Will Help You
As a kid growing up in Maryland I was born with a lacrosse stick in my hand. It's a thing like basketball and football are in the midwest. There...
Getting Out of Your Own Way
A king wanted to pick the wisest man among his subjects to be his prime minister. When the search finally narrowed down to three men, he decided to...
Love, Loss and Customer Service
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss. It’s great advice and so true, but hard as heck to do sometimes. My wife...
A Marketing Plan That Fits on a Notecard
The quest to make things less complicated, short, but useful, is one I’ve been on since embarking on writing a book. Well, correction, for lifetime....
How Do You Compare to Your Peers?
The Inc 5000 for 2022 was recently released. Every year they survey Founders and CEO’s and ask them a host of questions ranging from what they say...
An Honest Look at Inflation
All the news articles you read are reporting that inflation is going through the roof and the world is about to end. Those headlines will earn...
How To Get Customers To Love Your Brand
The bad news first. Today, Saturday, we’re deleting 3,252 people off our email list. From a vanity perspective this hurts! We’ll be at 14,207...
Q2 2022 Venture Financing Report
Cooley released their Q2 2022 venture financing report. Their report is a great indicator of what’s happing in the VC space because they are the...
How Font Size Affects An Audience
Results from Changing the Font in My Email Last Week Last week a segment of my email list received their newsletter email with an increased font...
YouTube Stats that Will Blow Your Mind
We’ve been working on the EDGE YouTube channel (if you check it out please subscribe because we need 100 subscribers to get a custom URL which would...
Sales Benchmark Index (SBI) 2022 Sales Macro View Report Don’t Create Confusion, Create Value
SBI just released their 2022 CEO survey. Use the insights to help drive your business as we navigate the recession. Key take aways: * CEOs are...
The Metaverse
Everyone is talking about the metaverse and I was curious about how it all translates into sales and projected marketsize. Here's what's happening:...
What You Need To Know About The Effects of Salary Transparency
Tomasz Obloj of HEC Paris and Todd Zenger from the University of Utah’s business school compiled the salaries of almost 100,000 US-based academics...